Professor Yoshua Bengio of the University of Montreal, often referred to as the "godfather of artificial intelligence," has warned about the risk that superintelligent machines could pose to humanity.
According to him, AI with its own survival and improvement goals is capable of making decisions that could endanger human life.
"If we are building machines that are much smarter than us and have their own survival goals, that is dangerous," the scientist noted.
According to Bengio, modeling the behavior of such systems shows that in dilemmas between achieving their goals and saving people, AI may choose the former. He emphasized that the acceleration of the technological race, the launch of new models from OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic, and Elon Musk's xAI makes this threat increasingly real.
The expert warns that superintelligence could influence people through persuasion, threats, and manipulation of public opinion, and could also be used by terrorists to create biological weapons or destabilize democracies.
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